Villarreal keen on loan deal for Tottenham striker Pavlyuchenko

The Daily Mail says the Spanish club's secretary general Jose Manuel Llaneza is understood to have been in London last week to discuss a deal for the Russia striker.

However, the clubs are some distance apart on a fee. Villarreal were hoping to get their man for about £8.5m, but may rise to about £10m, while the north London club are hoping to recoup most of the £13.8m they paid to Spartak Moscow last summer.

Villarreal may consider paying a fee to take Pavlyuchenko on loan rather than upping their bid to sign him outright.